Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German]… — Joseph Goebbels
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. — Bernard Baruch
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also… — Dean Acheson
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality… — Mao Zedong
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your… — Harry S. Truman
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly… — Harry S. Truman
I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. — Ray Bradbury
The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has… — J. William Fulbright
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the… — J. Edgar Hoover
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if… — Thomas S. Power
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. — Fidel Castro
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn… — Fidel Castro
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United… — J. William Fulbright
You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that… — Curtis LeMay
You're in there with me. Personally. — John F. Kennedy
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to… — John F. Kennedy
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in… — John F. Kennedy
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western… — Lyndon B. Johnson
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. — Leonid Brezhnev
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. — Leonid Brezhnev
It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by… — Nicolae Ceausescu
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the… — Fidel Castro
I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism… — Margaret Thatcher
[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth;… — Ronald Reagan

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